Windows Vista Beta 1 is already superior to Linux. 4361

Sally Vadi Thank you so much for your helpful post, Sally. It surely removes a burden from my mind and will help me sleep better tonight. I only wish you had posted this back when I was running Windows.

In fact, I was running it until this morning on my old machine. But today, it will not boot up very well. It starts with the McAfee VirusScan splash, but it never gets out of there, and until it does, nothing else will run. And if I kill it with Ctrl-Alt-Delete it kills VirusScan, but it does the menu will not come up. Whenver I touch the task bar, all I get is an hourglbutt. I tried to delete the McAfee stuff, (Change and Remove programs), but it says setting up remove, or some such thing, and hangs forever. Rebooting does not help. Nothing helps. What should I do now. I fear I will have to wipe the hard drives and reinstall W-XP, my programs, and my data from backup. Unfortunately, it crashed before I could make a backup. Fortunately, that is a dual boot system and I put my critical data on a FAT-32 file system, so I am backing the critical data up right now with Linux.

What is the approved Windows way to do this when I cannot even boot it completely, oh wise one?

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